"postwar years he died in 1974. He was buried in Jerusalem as he wished with the help of his old friend Pfefferberg. Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie ""Schindler's List"" directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called ""Schindler's List"" from the beginning; it was later reissued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. The novel was also awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for"
"Wales in Sydney. In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector. Keneally has been awarded honorary doctorates including one from the National University of Ireland. Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for writing ""Schindler's Ark"", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie"
"Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for writing ""Schindler's Ark"", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both Keneally's parents (Edmund Thomas Keneally and Elsie Margaret Coyle) were born to Irish fathers in the timber and dairy town of Kempsey, New South Wales, and, though born in Sydney, his early years were also spent"
"here, the foundation will still go on. Pfefferberg died on March 9, 2001, aged 87, in Beverly Hills. Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold ""Poldek"" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film ""Schindler's List"". Pfefferberg was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, then a part of the Austria-Hungary. He gained a master's degree in philosophy and physical education from the Jagiellonian University. Pfefferberg"
"Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold ""Poldek"" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film ""Schindler's List"". Pfefferberg was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, then a part of the Austria-Hungary. He gained a master's degree in philosophy and physical education from the Jagiellonian University. Pfefferberg was a high-school teacher in Kraków until 1939 and the physical education professor at Kościuszko Gymnasium in Podgórze."
"Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel ""Schindler's Ark"" and its 1993 film adaptation, ""Schindler's List"", which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication to save the lives of his Jewish employees."
"Schindler's List Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel ""Schindler's Ark"" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Ideas for a film about the ""Schindlerjuden"""
"while en route home from a film festival in Europe. Pfefferberg took the opportunity to tell Keneally the story of Oskar Schindler. He gave him copies of some materials he had on file, and Keneally soon decided to make a fictionalised treatment of the story. After extensive research and interviews with surviving ""Schindlerjuden"", his 1982 historical novel ""Schindler's Ark"" (published in the United States as ""Schindler's List"") was the result. The novel was adapted as the 1993 movie ""Schindler's List"" by Steven Spielberg. After acquiring the rights in 1983, Spielberg felt he was not ready emotionally or professionally to tackle"
"books, including 30 novels. He is particularly famed for his ""Schindler's Ark"" (1982) (later republished as ""Schindler's List""), the first novel by an Australian to win the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film ""Schindler's List"". He had already been shortlisted for the Booker three times prior to that: 1972 for ""The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"", 1975 for ""Gossip from the Forest"", and 1979 for ""Confederates"". Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in Fred"
"was a visiting professor at UCI where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to 1995, he was a visiting professor in the writing program at UCI. He is most famous for his book ""Schindler's Ark"" (1982) (later republished as ""Schindler's List""), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film ""Schindler's List"" that was directed by Steven Spielberg. In January 2009, UCI Professor Reg Penner won the Faraday Medal for his research with nanowires. University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine), is a public"
"on Schindler, kept in two cabinets in his back room. After 50 minutes of entreaties, Pfefferberg was finally able to convince Keneally to write the book; and Pfefferberg became an advisor, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and other sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ""Schindler's Ark"" to Pfefferberg: ""who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written."" After the publication of ""Schindler's Ark"" in 1982, Pfefferberg worked to persuade Steven Spielberg to film Keneally's book, using his acquaintance with Spielberg's mother to gain access. A carbon copy of Schindler's original 13-page list, of"
"opened in June 2010. Schindler's List Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel ""Schindler's Ark"" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Ideas for a"
"$1.9 billion today.) Other high-performing films credited to him are ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and ""Back to the Future"" (1985). Sheinberg famously wanted to change the name from ""Back to the Future"" to ""Space Man From Pluto"" despite the film having nothing to do with outer space, spacemen, or the dwarf planet Pluto. In 1982, Thomas Keneally published his historical novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which he wrote after a chance meeting with Pfefferberg in Los Angeles in 1980. Sheinberg sent director Spielberg a copy of the book along with a ""New York Times"" review. Sheinberg greenlit the film on condition that Spielberg"
"the ""Schindlerjuden"", made it his life's mission to tell the story of his savior. Pfefferberg attempted to produce a biopic of Oskar Schindler with MGM in 1963, with Howard Koch writing, but the deal fell through. In 1982, Thomas Keneally published his historical novel ""Schindler's Ark"", which he wrote after a chance meeting with Pfefferberg in Los Angeles in 1980. MCA president Sid Sheinberg sent director Steven Spielberg a ""New York Times"" review of the book. Spielberg, astounded by Schindler's story, jokingly asked if it was true. ""I was drawn to it because of the paradoxical nature of the character,"""
"a Nazi officer right before his eyes. Oskar Schindler was portrayed in the Thomas Keneally novel ""Schindler's Ark"" (the basis for Steven Spielberg's film ""Schindler's List""). In an especially dramatic event, 300 of Schindler's workers were deported to the Auschwitz death camp despite his efforts, and he personally intervened to return them to him. Other notable people include Mordechai Gebirtig, who was one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems. He was shot there in 1942. Miriam Akavia, an Israeli writer, survived the Kraków ghetto and concentration camps. Renowned dermatologist and co-discoverer of Reyes Syndrome,"
"most wins (three) in the category of the Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, tied with Thelma Schoonmaker, Daniel Mandell, and Ralph Dawson. All of the films for which he won Oscars were directed by Steven Spielberg: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), and ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998). He has also received six BAFTA nominations for Best Editing, winning two for ""Schindler's List"" and ""Fatal Attraction"". Kahn has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). In 2011, he received the Career Achievement Award of the American Cinema Editors. At the ceremony, Steven Spielberg said"
"Steven Zaillian Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for ""Awakenings"", ""Gangs of New York"" and ""Moneyball"". He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. Zaillian was born in Fresno, California of Armenian"
"saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. It is a work of historical fiction which describes actual people and places with fictional events, dialogue and scenes added by the author and reconstructed dialogue where exact details are unknown. Keneally wrote a number of well received novels before and after ""Schindler's Ark""; however, it has since gone on to become his most well-known and celebrated work. Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor, inspired Keneally to write ""Schindler's Ark"". After the war, Pfefferberg had tried on a number of occasions to interest the screenwriters and filmmakers he met through"
"Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel ""Ender's Game"" (1985) and its sequel ""Speaker for the Dead"" (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of ""Ender's Game"", which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card is a professor of English at Southern Virginia University, has written two books on creative writing, hosts writing"
"novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980, Keneally met Pfefferberg in the latter's shop, and learning that he was a novelist, Pfefferburg showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler, including the original list itself. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ""Schindler's Ark"" to Pfefferberg: ""who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written."" He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar"
"Harold Schindler Harold Moroni ""Hal"" Schindler (December 6, 1929 – December 28, 1998) was an American journalist and historian, known for his articles and books on the American west. Early in his career he also scripted episodes of the television series ""Death Valley Days"" and ""Gunsmoke"". He is best known for his 1966 biography of 19th-century Latter-day Saint Orrin Porter Rockwell. Schindler was born in Chicago, Illinois to Moroni Helaman Nephi Schindler and Carolina Margaretta Strickstrock, who were German immigrants. Shortly afterward they moved to New York City, until 1940 when they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. He married"
"Kenneth Wannberg Kenneth Gail Wannberg (born June 28, 1930, in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and sound editor. He has worked extensively with the composer John Williams on some of the biggest box office films of all time. His music editing credits include ""Star Wars"" (George Lucas, 1977), ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (Steven Spielberg, 1981), ""JFK"" (Oliver Stone, 1991), ""Schindler’s List"" (Spielberg, 1993), and ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" (Alfonso Cuarón, 2004). In 1986 Wannberg won an Emmy for his sound editing on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories series. His film score compositions include ""The Tender"
"won numerous awards for single works. In 1978, the Harold B. Lee Library acquired the Orson Scott Card papers, which included Card's works, writing notes and letters, and in 2007 the collection was formally opened. Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel ""Ender's Game"" (1985) and its sequel ""Speaker for the Dead"" (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in"
"Schindler was that ""it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerge from the most unlikely places"". The book was later made into a film titled ""Schindler's List"" (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in ""Searching for Schindler: A Memoir"" (2007). Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South"
"Man Booker Prize for a decade and was the biographer of the politician Alan Clark. Trewin also edited the three volumes of Clark's diaries. Ion Trewin Ion Courtenay Gill Trewin (13 July 1943 – 8 April 2015) was a British editor, publisher and author. Born in London, the son of J. C. Trewin and Wendy Trewin (""née"" Monk), Ion Trewin was educated at Highgate School. He was the literary editor of ""The Times"" from 1972 to 1979 and then became an editor with Hodder & Stoughton (for whom he published Thomas Keneally's ""Schindler's Ark"" in 1982) until 1992 and Orion"
"(2005) and story consultant for ""Shrek 2"" (2004). Ted Tally Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He adapted the Thomas Harris novel ""The Silence of the Lambs"" into the film of the same name, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His"
"final sentences distill the style of this astonishing and unforgettable book. Concise yet highly evocative; measured and somewhat detached, yet possessing a poeticism and a consistent spiritual tenor and strength."" In 2002, the Polish-French film-maker, Roman Polanski, directed a screen version of the book. The movie won three Academy Awards in 2003 – Oscars for best director; best actor, and best adapted screenplay, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Film Award, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Polanski escaped the Kraków Ghetto and survived the Holocaust, but his mother was killed by the German"
"Chuck Hogan Charles Patrick Hogan (born August 4, 1967) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of ""Prince of Thieves"", and as the co-author of ""The Strain"" trilogy with Guillermo del Toro. Alongside del Toro, Hogan created the television series ""The Strain"" (2014–2017), adapting their trilogy of vampire novels. Hogan also wrote the crime novels ""The Standoff"" (1995), ""The Blood Artists"" (1998), ""The Killing Moon"" (2007), and ""The Devils In Exiles"" (2010), and the screenplay for the war film """" (2016). ""Prince of Thieves"" (2004) was adapted into Ben Affleck's Academy Award-nominated"
"to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for ""Jurassic Park"", and Academy Award for ""Schindler's List"", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("""", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for ""Gravity"" in 2013). Notes: ""†"" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. ""‡"" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director The"
"Branko Lustig Branko Lustig (born 10 June 1932) is a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for ""Schindler's List"" and ""Gladiator"". He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma, was a housewife. Lustig's grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended the local synagogue with them. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on February 26, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Laura Dern. ""Schindler's List"" won seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Other winners included ""Jurassic Park"" and ""The Piano"" with three awards each, ""Philadelphia"" with two awards, and ""The Age of Innocence"", ""Belle Epoque"", ""Defending Our Lives"", ""The Fugitive"", """", ""Mrs. Doubtfire"", ""Schwarzfahrer"" and ""The Wrong Trousers"" with one. The telecast was watched by more than 46 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 66th Academy Awards were announced on February"
"a postal worker had sent it to the university, as it had a complete address and postage, which turned out to be fake. All contents were from a Guam ""prop replicator"" who sells them all over the world. The university will display its replica in the main lobby of the Oriental Institute. Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as ""Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark"") is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by"
"to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays—one before his imprisonment and blacklisting (for Woman of the Year in 1942), and one after (for M*A*S*H in 1970). His book, ""The Lardners, My Family Remembered"" (), is a source of information on his father. David Lardner worked for ""The New Yorker"" as a general reporter and war correspondent before he was killed by a landmine near Aachen, Germany in October 1944, less than one month after his arrival in Europe. Ring Lardner was a great-uncle to 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner"